Turning Point (Veteran's Honor) symbolizes rebirth, returning "to the bud." The partial Italian calendar for Agosto (August) commemorates the days of diagnosis and waiting my husband and I experienced right on the heels of a magical trip to Italy. The hand-written text is an amalgam of poetry he wrote during our courtship and excerpts from the I Ching. As the third woman in my family to receive a breast cancer diagnosis in as many years, I felt like a veteran from the outset.